Chris Dennis
@chrisdennis.bsky.social
Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, public health, harm reduction, rural gay dad. Writing in: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney's.
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Chris Dennis
@chrisdennis.bsky.social
· Oct 4
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EMOTIONS. Vivian Gornick says in the intro: these essays "fashion a persona out of one's own undisguised self." So moved that my unhinged epistolary essay about drugs has resonated with people. Best American Essays 23 is out Oct. 17th but you can preorder now!
EMOTIONS. Vivian Gornick says in the intro: these essays "fashion a persona out of one's own undisguised self." So moved that my unhinged epistolary essay about drugs has resonated with people. Best American Essays 23 is out Oct. 17th but you can preorder now!
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Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
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BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
www.youtube.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I see why he bankrupted casinos.
August 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I see why he bankrupted casinos.
It’s almost overdose awareness month and we bought a button maker at work. And we’re planning to distribute a 1000 Narcan kits.
July 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s almost overdose awareness month and we bought a button maker at work. And we’re planning to distribute a 1000 Narcan kits.
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Book news from me. Been a long haul to here. xo
July 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Book news from me. Been a long haul to here. xo
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the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
What *is* their worst fear about the left? That the left also cares about the lives of Palestinians?
Zohran Mamdani, with a record of anti-Israel activism, won over some Jews in the New York City mayoral primary, but confirmed other Jews' worst fears about the American left.
Mamdani’s Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews
While Zohran Mamdani won over some Jewish supporters, other Jewish Democrats suggested that concerns about their community’s safety are being dismissed in a movement and a city they helped build.
trib.al
June 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What *is* their worst fear about the left? That the left also cares about the lives of Palestinians?
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Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
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June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
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Boebert was a central participant in January 6. she should have been booted out of Congress on January 21 2021
Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Boebert was a central participant in January 6. she should have been booted out of Congress on January 21 2021
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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the hard times doesn't miss @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the hard times doesn't miss @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social
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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
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Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.
May 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
This is so class-war coded. As if gay Harvard grads and plumbers are somehow at odds with each other. How does this “divide the electorate” shit still work. They would love us to believe that workers are enemies to one another. It’s always giving: don’t look behind the corporate overlord curtain.
Leavitt: "Electricians, plumbers -- we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University. And that's what this administration's position is."
May 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is so class-war coded. As if gay Harvard grads and plumbers are somehow at odds with each other. How does this “divide the electorate” shit still work. They would love us to believe that workers are enemies to one another. It’s always giving: don’t look behind the corporate overlord curtain.
when you let gay children play their music in the living room.
May 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
when you let gay children play their music in the living room.
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finally, someone is standing up to the homeless
Breaking News: Governor Gavin Newsom called on California municipalities to outlaw homeless encampments and clear existing ones.
Newsom to Ask Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
finally, someone is standing up to the homeless
Conservatives are already calling him the woke pope.
May 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Conservatives are already calling him the woke pope.
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“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
What if she walked out of the conclave.
May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
What if she walked out of the conclave.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Steve Bannon on NPR, saying he’s worried that people won’t have an appetite for the incoming constitutional crises … is something that we agree on. Where does his monstrous hunger for terror come from.
May 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Steve Bannon on NPR, saying he’s worried that people won’t have an appetite for the incoming constitutional crises … is something that we agree on. Where does his monstrous hunger for terror come from.
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Hegseth on his phone more than a New York City cop
May 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hegseth on his phone more than a New York City cop